Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.